//------------------------------// // Prologue Vinyl meet Tailgate // Story: Transformers: Darkness of Equestria // by mirageandjazz11 //------------------------------// It was just a normal evening back at Vinyl Scratch's house in Ponyville after a long exhausting day of parties. Jeez, what's with parties these days? They aren't even fun anymore with all the booze and such. No one can even stand up, Vinyl thought to herself. Speaking of parties, she started thinking about a certain.........autobot who really could party. "Blaster" she sighed to herself remembering the big red music loving autobot who even helped upgrade her bass cannon. "No, stop it why can't I just forget about him?!" she screamed in her mind as the painful memories of visiting his statue after he disappeared along with the rest of the transformers started to rush back to her head. After sitting for awhile she got up to find the last thing cybertronian in Equestria on her table. Blaster's gift to her: a pair of walkie-talkies that were meant to be used so that Blaster could talk to her even when he was away. The reason they did not get sucked up into the portal with all the other cybetronian related objects, is because it was mostly made from materials on the planet. Only 2% of the entire thing was alien. Vinyl just stared at it for awhile and fell asleep. *tsk* *Groan* Vinyl opened one eye and curiously looked around the room to find the source of the noise. It went quiet again, so she decided to go back to sleep. " *tsk* IS *bzzzzt* ANYONE THERE? *static* Someone help me.......... Prime! She snapped her eyes open and looked at her walkie-talkies, both were there so why was there someone talking and where did she remember the word Prime from? "Primus I'm leaking over here HELLO!" "Prime...Primus? what words is this po-...wait that's not how a pony sounds like... is that an Autobot?" pressing the button on the talkie she asked: "Um....Hi can you hear me? Are you an Autobot by any chance?" "Yes, of course I am! What do you have a malfunction or something? Ugh Never mind... Sorry anyways please get me Sentinel Prime or Rodimus Prime ASAP. I have been compromised: Bumper and Fastback are dead and the Decepticons have caught me on some weird planet I've never been on before I need backup. I have sent out a beacon so you can track me." "I'm sorry... but I am not an Autobot I am a pony. My name is Vinyl Scratch." "Wait... a pony?! No..... no no no this is not supposed to happen...Oh scrap. I know where I am now. Quick, do you know a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle?" Confused she answered "Yes, but why? And who are you?" "My name is Tailgate, Autobot Bomb Disposal and scout and to answer your first question: if I am right there is going to be another war on Equestria soon and you need to tell her to prepare for Rodi-ARGHHHHHH!" There was nothing there now but static. Vinyl, who was now scared by all of this news and also the abrupt cut off from Tailgate, she did the only thing she could do at this point. She went to Ponyville's library. _________________________________________ Outside Everfree Forest "ARGHHHHHH!" Tailgate screamed as he was stabbed in the back, thrown across the air (landing painfully on his face), and cut off from the pony Vinyl Scratch. Turning around, he looked at his attackers. They were the D.M.P.T: Decepticon Military Patrol Team. Bombshock was the leader: tall green and blue with a massive cannon on his back. Which made sense since he is a tank. Tracer the helicopter, second in command and his attacker. He was dark with blades on his left arm dripping with Tailgate's energon, no face except two yellow eyes. Dropshot, the blue, trigger happy dimwitted demo specialist. Tailgate pulled out his Neutron assault rifle but his weapon randomly exploded. He sat confused for a moment before spotting the last member of the D.M.P.T... Growl, the red, sadistic sniper with his rifle attached to his right arm, staring at him with his red visor while grinning evilly, blaster smoking. "Oh how it pains me to see you so wounded...so weak... Autobot," Growl said before laughing like a hyena. Bombshock, wanting to make this quick, gave Growl a look to make him shut up. "So, Tailgate right? Been awhile. You got any last words? I promise to make it a quick, painless death." Tailgate was about to give an insult before stopping to think how pointless it would be. He was doomed. "Sure, yeah. Where is your master?" he asked. He hoped he could record it into his backup drives. When the autobots find him, they will hopefully find where...Nemesis was. However, Bombshock was not a moron despite stupidity being a common trait in decepticon tanks. "That is not of your concern scrap heap," he spoke drawing a sword, optics glowing crimson. Tailgate in his final moments took time to make a message. "Arcee... I am sorry. Forgive me for going alone on this insane mission." And then there was darkness. ________________________________________ I stared at the corpse of the former Autobot scout and bomb disposal his armor turning from white and blue to a dark grey confirming he was dead and sighed just wishing for the war to be over. "Growl no!" hearing a shot I turning around at the source of the sound I saw Tracer pinning Growl down I also noticed that Growl's blaster was smoking "By Primus Growl is trying to kill me all you ever do?" I asked giving him an annoyed look "Bombshock I promise by the Allspark that one day I will smelt you!" Growl......growled. "Cool story just like the day I become the next Prime Shockimus" I smirked while I taunted him "I don't get it?" Growl acting as stupid as he usually is. "Didn't think you would... Hey Dropshot!" "Oh yeeees our mighty leader Bombster?" "First of all quit it and two contact the boss tell him we hunted Tailgate, Bumper and Fastback down and terminated them" "Of course anything else?" Dropshot eagerly asked "Tell him its time to spring the trap and when he orders us too we will join the Decpticon Powermasters and Headmasters and destroy Ponyville" I ordered the solider "Really! you mean it I can shoot something now?!" I gave him a smirk "Yes I am serious we can finally begin to destroy the autobots once and for all and also that impostor Galvatron and his forces all under the mighty leadership of Nemesis Prime!" _________________________________________